Bug #1440
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Unreliable results when iterating the HTML DOM attribute axis if new-line character occurs within attribute values
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Description
This issue is specific to the attribute axis for the HTML page, so affects expressions such as $element/@@* where @$element is an element within the HTML page. It's know to affect the Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers. The problem only occurs when new-line characters occur in one of the attribute values of @$element@.
The first error message seen for this was: XTDE0850: Invalid attribute name: "data-type - this was caused by the XSLT:
@<xsl:template match="attribute::*" mode="sxedit:restore sxedit:update" priority="-0.5">
<xsl:attribute name="{name(.)}" select="." />
</xsl:template>@
In this case, name(.) was returning the value: "data-type (the first character being a double-quote).
The workaround is to avoid inserting new-line characters into HTML attribute values where they're not already normalized by the browser
Updated by Philip Fearon about 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
Resolved. The attribute parsing has been fixed. But as this is only required for older version of Internet Exporer (pre-IE8) a check is now in place to ensure that normally the DOM attributes property is used for attributes - the parser is only used for cases where this property is not supported fully by the browser.
Updated by O'Neil Delpratt about 11 years ago
- Status changed from Resolved to Closed
- Fixed in version changed from Beta 0.2 to 1.0
Fixed in Saxon-CE version 1.0
Updated by O'Neil Delpratt about 11 years ago
- Sprint/Milestone changed from Beta 0.2 to Release 1.0
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
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